The University of Tampa Psychology Reception of Environmental Stimuli Exam

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1.Prior to the age of six months, you could take a toy away from your infant and the baby would not protest, but when the baby is older, he or she will cry and/or look for the object. What Piagetian concept explains this observation?

a.	object permanence
b.	assimilation
c.	concrete operations
d.	accommodation

2.An adult who chooses not to park in a handicap space because he wants to avoid a ticket and fine is operating at the _______________ level of Kohlberg’s theory.

a.	nonconventional
b.	postconventional
c.	preconventional
d.	conventional

3.Someone who risks arrest because he believes in demonstrating his support for a cause that he internally feels is morally right is demonstrating Kohlberg’s

a.	postconventional level.
b.	preconventional level.
c.	concrete level.
d.	postconcrete level.

4.Many students report that they feel less stressed about a difficult examination if they have more choices about which questions to answer. Having ‘personal choice’ may increase their sense of control. Whose work is in agreement with the students’ perceptions?

a.	Loftus	c.	Langer & Rodin
b.	Friedman & Rosenman	d.	Langer & Harlow

5.To Piaget, cognitive development involves

a.	stages that are characterized by fundamentally different thought processes
b.	increases in the quantity, but not the quality, of knowledge with age
c.	passive reception of environmental stimuli
d.	age-related changes in attention and memory

6.What did Harry Harlow’s experiments with motherless monkeys suggest about infant attachment?

The provision of food by the primary caregiver is most critical to the formation of infant attachment.

The contact comfort provided by the primary caregiver is most critical to the formation of infant attachment

The provision of food and contact comfort by the primary caregiver are equally critical to the formation of infant attachment.

The provision of contact comfort by the primary caregiver is not critical to the formation of infant attachment.

7.Which of the following is NOT the name of a phase in the human sexual response cycle?

a.	plateau	d.	resolution
b.	orgasm	e.	all of the above
c.	arousal/excitement

8.In the study on emotions and facial expressions, which of the following emotions was not examined?

a.	happiness	c.	disgust
b.	anger	d.	All were examined.

9.Masters and Johnson used a different technique than their predecessor, Alfred Kinsey, who used ______

a.	laboratory experiments	c.	surveys and interviews
b.	case studies	d.	naturalistic observation

10.A psychologist wants to determine whether the lighting level in a room affects the performance of students on tests. He has 100 students take a test in a brightly lit room, and a comparable group of 100 students take the same test in a dimly lit room. Which measure should we use to test for differences between these two groups?

a.	t-test
b.	ANOVA
c.	MANOVA
d.	Chi-square

11.Describe two of the experiments in the Loftus study. What was one of the two major overall implications of this group of studies?

12.Identify and define three of the types of intelligence identified in the multiple intelligences reading. The name of the person who identified these types is _______________________________.

13.Identify and describe the tasks Piaget administered in the reading. What were some of the children’s reactions? This reading assessed which cognitive ability?__________________________________

14.Discuss the primary criticism of Kohlberg’s theory.

15. Discuss the primary ethical issue of the Langer & Rodin study.

16.Identify one myth dispelled in the studies on sexual behavior.

Use these tables to answer the questions on the next page.

Correlations
		TacoScore	PizzaScore
TacoScore	Pearson Correlation	1	-.193
	Sig. (2-tailed)		.428
	N	19	19
PizzaScore	Pearson Correlation	-.193	1
	Sig. (2-tailed)	.428
	N	19	19

Correlations
		Taco consumption	Nacho consumption
Taco consumption	Pearson Correlation	1	-.740
	Sig. (2-tailed)		.047
	N	8	8
Nacho consumption	Pearson Correlation	-.740	1
	Sig. (2-tailed)	.047
	N	8	8

Correlations
		Cake preference	Pie preference
Cake preference	Pearson Correlation	1	.691
	Sig. (2-tailed)		.039
	N	8	8
Pie preference	Pearson Correlation	.691	1
	Sig. (2-tailed)	.039
	N	8	8

1.Discuss the specific relationship between the taco score and the pizza score. Be clear on exactly what this means for the variables.

2.Discuss the specific relationship between taco and nacho consumption. Be clear on exactly what this means for the variables.

3.Discuss the specific relationship between cake and pie preference. Be clear on exactly what this means for the variables.

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